Agricultural land use and Skylark Alauda arvensis: A case study linking a habitat association model to spatially explicit change scenarios

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-76

  Boatman, Nigel D ^a   Pietravalle, Stéphane ^a   Parry, Hazel R ^a   Crocker, Joe ^a   Irving, Paul V ^a   Turley, David B ^a   Mills, Jane ^b   Dwyer, Janet C ^b  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b Countryside and Community Research Institute ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Farmland birds; GIS; Population density; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CONTROL SYSTEM; COPPICE; CROP ROTATION; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; PASSERINE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALAUDA ARVENSIS; AVES; BRASSICA NAPUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 71949131319     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00969.x     Document Type: Article

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